[Nagiosplug-devel] Re: [Nagios-users] Displaying full output (verbose) for a service.

[Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy]

Nagios only takes one line of output from any plugin it runs. I also 
would like to see this behavior changed, by introducing mandatory plugin 
switches for example (-f for full output, -l for one-liner or 
something). At the moment, I have found that removing end-of-line 
characters from output and putting output into perfdata (behind the | 
symbol) is a good way of doing things.

Tomer H. wrote:

>Hello Marc,
>
>  Yes, I have read the guidelines and coded my personal plugins
>  according to them.   To be more accurate, this is a client/server
>  app which I coded a nagios plugin for running (cron-alike) and
>  monitoring it.
>
>  The problem is, I'm try to find a way to show the complete output of
>  the client without logging using ssh and running it manually (again)
>  for getting this verbose, nor coding a second web interface just for
>  that.     I made the output that the first line will be a short
>  status line (According to the guidelines you refered me to) and
>  after that the complete output is being showed.
>
>  Maybe it's a good time to add this one as an nagios feature request.
>
>  Speaking of feature requests, it would be nice if there would be a
>  way to insert a password auth to the NRPE client/server for having a
>  bit sense of security and not counting on hosts.allow/firewall rules
>  for dealing with executation and 'user logging auth'.. (This one is
>  mostly good for client/monitor machines which are shared-user
>  boxes and the rest of the users of the box shouldn't be able to log
>  to the remote NRPE server).
>
>  -- Tomer.
>  
>